The future doesn’t have a keyboard ⌨️❌ Every demo leaves the room speechless (yes, intended).
Watched @AarushYadav47 and @Arnkum_Avar build this at @AforeVC FIR U this summer 🚀
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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Love seeing X keep investing in creators and community building. This could be super valuable for streamers looking to build stronger relationships with their audiences and keep the convo going even when they’re offline
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Instagram’s testing 90-minute horizontal videos. A YouTube competitor or a natural evolution? Let’s get into it 🧵
Today, I'm launching Vene: your AI advocate for healthcare.
I used to spend a dozen hours a week managing care for my dad, a disabled veteran, and my mom, who has a severe autoimmune disease. Healthcare was a full-time job for my family.
Our goal is to end the burden of care for every family:
When you're sick, or caring for someone who is, the hard part is everything after the hospital: the referral that never arrives, the test result nobody calls about, the bill that makes no sense, and everything in between.
For my dad, he spent hours on the phone to book an MRI. When he showed up, they told him to his face that insurance had stopped covering it. Then insurance told him to call a list of other offices and get the paperwork sent over himself, and he ended up giving up.
That’s why we’ve trained Vene to handle the toughest aspects of healthcare:
- Coordinating several specialists at once
- Challenging surprise bills and treatment denials
- Catching missed follow-ups and care gaps
My mom uses Vene to coordinate her primary care and endocrinologist, automatically refill and renew her prescriptions, and manage my little sister’s dental appointments.
They were my first users, and now over 5,000 families use Vene, and we're deploying it to another 50,000 patients across provider networks in the US.
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Really excited about what we're building with @X! Huge thanks to @mike_rosinsky @pjvann @allegrajacchia @myleswagner and the team for being great partners. Lots of possibilities ahead for live streamers
Streamlabs is now on X Developer Exhibit 🎉
Creators can livestream to X directly from Streamlabs Desktop, our OBS plugin, and the mobile app; moderate and engage with chat using Cloudbot; and bring X activity on stream with widgets for alerts, goals, chat, and more.
More ways to go live. More ways to engage your community. 💚
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One of the biggest takeaways from September’s streaming data:
@TheBurntPeanut generated 8.28M hours watched on YouTube Gaming and 8.10M on Twitch. That’s ~16.4M combined, more than any individual channel in the rankings.
Creator reach has spanned multiple platforms for a while now. The next opportunity is understanding what each platform does best and how they work together to build stronger communities.
looking for one more founder for our fall cohort
the work: build with a small crew, weekly sessions with operators and investors, hands-on support from @AforeCapital
the fun last cohort: stargazing 🪐, kayaking in Sausalito🛶, graduation at oracle park ⚾
last seat👇apply now
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Really cool to see @Meta latest announcements at #MetaConnect.
We’re getting very close to releasing @streamlabs integration with Meta AI glasses. Soon, you’ll be able to live stream directly from your glasses while bringing along your favorite Streamlabs features.
Excited to share more soon.
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The GTA VI preview broke Twitch today, but the actual game should give it a huge boost come November.
Our new Q2 Live Streaming Report shows the platform is stabilizing – and video game streaming in general could use a healthy jolt to keep up with Just Chatting.
streamlabs.com/content-hub/p…
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Had a great interview with @Net_Influencer_ talking all things Network Boost. Read the full interview here: netinfluencer.com/streamlabs…
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ICYMI: Network Boost is in @TheVerge! Thanks for sharing the news, @Zombie_Wretch
theverge.com/tech/975015/str…
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For 10 years, @AforeVC has invested in People Before Ideas.
Today our new website puts that front & center 🚀 afore.vc/residence
Here's what #PeopleBeforeIdeas means to us 👇
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As brands evolve their creator marketing strategies, IRL streamers should be at the top of their talent list. My new piece in @marketingdive explores why.
Read it here: marketingdive.com/news/irl-s…
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Some of the best qualities in a person:
- genuinely happy about other people’s wins
- high agency
- gets excited over little things
- curious not judgmental
- owns their own mistakes & poor choices
- kind to people who can do nothing for them
- authentic even when it’s hard
- does what they say they’re going to do or more
- values how life feels > how life looks
- okay with being disliked
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Curious to hear if any streamers have had a shift in viewer engagement this summer. Noticing bigger or smaller chats? Quieter or louder?
If you find yourself in a bit of a slump, are there any feature ideas you think could help? I’m listening.
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Been spending a lot of time with our team on something I'm really excited about, and I think it's going to make IRL streaming a whole lot more reliable.
Can't share all the details just yet, but we're launching this week. Stay tuned 👀
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We just wrapped the first week of FIR S26.
Rather than sum it up ourselves, we'll let a couple of the founders do it:
"I've had an amazing first week at FIR. Being surrounded by ambitious founders and having great conversations with them has been invigorating. Keen to build and excited for what's to come." - Joseph Dowdall
"It's great to be in the Afore offices with so many brilliant founders, investors, and advisors. The first couple weeks have been full of ideas, best practices, and hearing from people who have been in our exact situation before." - Victor Wu
They’re not just building: sushi & soccer dinner at our office, a workout class, and a farm-to-founder dinner at Plow to close out the week.
21 founders, 12 teams, one summer just getting started.
More to come, and if you want to be part of the next cohort, applications are open. Link in comments.
























